Makari eyeing rare Saratoga double

Merriebelle Stable’s Makari, who won Saratoga Race Course’s $100,000 A. P. Smithwick Memorial in his first U.S. start, has been entered for a shot at winning Thursday’s $150,000 New York Turf Writers Cup, a back-to-back Saratoga double that has not been achieved in 15 years.